Drew Kadel

If anyone has any evidence that folks doing the kind of activism and observing that Pretti and Good were doing when killed were inspired by *elected officials,* I'd love to see it.

Because from my reporting in Minneapolis, exactly zero people cited elected officials as inspiration.

I would like the definitions of "small" and "footprint" please

Probably the ones who had lobotomies before 2003.

Maybe the immigrants affected can all sue for $10 billion. 🤡

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My 4 year old nephew wants to build the “fastest rocket ship ever to Jupiter” and you don’t see any New York Times articles about that

siri find me gamblmarkt odds on nancy mace catching federal trespassing and assault charges for hitting a TSA officer with an empty grey goose bottle when trying to catch a 5AM red eye

I think a key distinction is labor cost — the costs of LLMs are currently hidden from most users bc the firms are losing money while competing for users. Once a monopoly is cemented, prices will go up and I’m not sure all firms will find LLMs are “cheaper”

Pam Bondi loves dogs. Always had them, one after another. She got involved with dog shelters and dog rescue, and once pulled off to the side of a busy road and got out of her car to chase down a stray. Another dog she helped was a Saint Bernard named Master Tank. She adopted him from a shelter after he was lost during Hurricane Katrina in 2005, not long after her own Saint Bernard had died. The story has been told but bears repeating. Master Tank belonged to Steve and Dorreen Couture and their grandson, who was 4, recovering from the murder-suicide of his parents and losing his dog during the storm. Bondi said the dog was a “walking skeleton” and “dying from heartworms” when she adopted him. The Coutures eventually tracked down Master Tank, but instead of giving him back, Bondi hired a lawyer, who accused the Coutures of abusing the dog, which Bondi had renamed Noah. “She lied,” Dorreen told a Palm Beach Post columnist years later. “My little grandson begged her to take the dog home, and she refused. She thought she would just wear us down. That we were unstable people and would just quit.” The case was settled out of court, with Bondi securing visitation rights, but she never did visit. She got another dog.

This is some genuinely psycho shit...

Why is DOJ tracking what members of Congress are searching for in the Epstein files? bsky.app/profile/atru...

The Italian fascists were lying when they said that too.

It’s great that the grand jury said nix, but the attempt was a significant escalation.

Were there any of the original states where slavery was NOT allowed? I have handled documents from 1800 on the purchase of slaves in New York.

Well, at least they chose the first day in a while when icicles wouldn’t form on the ball as it traveled the 60’ 6” to the plate.

Pete Muntean @petemuntean X.com BREAKING: A source briefed by FAA tells me the El Paso flight ban was driven by military operations from Biggs Army Air Field at Fort Bliss. The FAA acted after the Defense Department could not assure civilian flight safety. Google Earth Texas TEXAS Biggs Army Airfield El Paso Inti Airport 8:14 AM • 2/11/26 • 15K Views

CNN aviation reporter

BREAKING
Here's the reason Tr*mp wants to block the new Canada-MI bridge. There's a competing bridge owned by a billionaire, Matty Moroun. Lutnick met with Moroun right before Trump issued his threat to shut down the new bridge.

Hi y’all. El Paso City Councilmember here but also fellow avgeek. Not a usual sub for me, but here we are. We’re all trying to work out why this crazy NOTAM was issued. What I know so far (as of midnight zero six local Wednesday): • It isn’t a typo or an error. FAA issued this NOTAM intentionally as written. • Nobody local got advance notice. And I mean nobody — neither civilian nor military leadership. • Military does not have carte blanche exemption. Army is fretting about their flights tomorrow just as much as everyone else. • Albuquerque Center did not get advance notice.

Post from an El Paso city councilor on one of the aviation subreddits

Nice. But kind of a wild pitch. Like over the backstop.

Crew 12 launch to the ISS has been moved to Friday the 13th at 10:15 UTC due to elevated winds in the ascent corridor.

Source: SpaceX

Yikes that’s fuckin dark

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There's a whole raft of questions about the danger and bad health effects of the way we do sports & sports medicine in general, but this is no different from a 24 year-old pushing physical limits in any sport.

Alito From an award-winning journalist, the authoritative—and explosive—inside story of Justice Samuel Alito and his powerful role in shaping the Supreme Court...

Oh god, Mollie Hemmingway is dropping a fellacious bio of Alito in April.

Folks, this man is *so* going to retire at the end of the term. Senate Democrats, PLEASE staff up. This is *going to happen.*

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You're right to a large extent, though I think Carnley is right, the U.S. is probably over as the single hegemon in the world--our role will most likely be among the other wealthy countries, competing for recognition & advantage. ...unless we continue on Trump's way...

Many people don't realize that you don't own any of the ebooks you "buy" on Kindle - it's merely a license that they can modify or delete at will. Any publisher who wants their books made available on Amazon can't make special discounts available to any store unless Amazon get the same deal.

Bezos has from the beginning hated books, libraries and the publishing industry. The "Amazon Bookstore" where he started was a test case in how far he could go in predatory practices in impoverishing booksellers and making it harder for libraries to function.

We consistently overestimated the virtue and underestimated the cynicism of the "tech billionaires"--the most self-interested assholes this planet has produced. As a librarian, I've known for over 20 years that Jeff Bezos is a monster. +

McIVER: Do you consider yourself a religious man?

LYONS: Yes mam

McIVER: How do you think judgment day will work for you with so much blood on your hands?

LYONS: I'm not going to entertain that question


McIVER: Do you think you're going to hell, Mr Lyons?

Acting ICE Director Todd Lyons says that ICE will be a key part of World Cup security.

Trump administration removes Rainbow Flag from Stonewall National Monument The Trump administration removed a large Rainbow Flag from a flagpole at the Stonewall National Monument, the National Park Service confirmed to Gay City News

They have now removed the Pride flag from the Stonewall Inn.

Erasure. Just like the Nazis.

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Among Trump's betrayals of the U.S., his making us party to his actions against Canada makes me almost as angry as his treatment of non-white Americans and immigrants.

Most of the ones who retired REALLY don't want to be involved in an illegitimate coup d'etat. That's a big reason that Republicans retire from the House, they have no stomach for it.
(Matt Gaetz thought he was going to be Attorney General, THEN he thought he'd be publicly shamed)